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Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + YouTube. The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art. From its groundbreaking architecture to its statues, mosaics, and frescos, Rome engineered bigger and better than anyone before. At its peak, the Roman Empire was a society of unprecedented luxury, with colossal arenas for entertaining the masses and giant monuments to egotistical emperors. And then it fell.

Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App and YouTube. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born-and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came prehistoric art: mysterious tombs, mighty megaliths, and vivid cave paintings. Then the Egyptians and the Greeks laid the foundations of Western art-creating a world of magical gods, massive pyramids, sun-splashed temples, and ever-more-lifelike statues.

Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport and YouTube. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself in the statues, paintings, and architecture of Florence, then spread to Spain, Holland, Germany, and beyond. The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world.

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His new six-episode series airs on PBS this month with a look at European cave paintings, the art of the Renaissance and more.

Great art is a window into the culture and people we travel so far to experience and understand.